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Visiting Dipity Once Again

Gary — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:17:10 +0000

In on the preview version and it just seems a lot more solid. It was dead simple to create a lifestream. I was surprised at how it could bring everything together into one simple timeline. We will be using it soon with the kids as they study Ancient Egypt, will be interesting to see how it works for them.

8tracks

Gary — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:28:10 +0000

Remember playing with Muxtapes a while back. Wondered how they could post the music the way they did? I guess Muxtapes had some difficulties but into the void comes 8tracks. This 8track is a few songs loosely organized around Mark Knopfler.

Dipity Looks Interesting

Gary — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:57:29 +0000

Another interesting timeline tool also includes a list, flipbook and map view. Very easy to import my wordpress blog posts, twitter and Last Fm information and embed into this blog post. Might be an interesting way to aggregate kid’s edublogs post? Anyhow something to play with.

Video Wall

Gary — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:52:07 +0000

Video export from Voicethread to Viddler to Vodpod and embedded into a wordpress page. Kind of a cool way to display kids work. The embedded voicethread looks better than the videos but I need to make room on my ed.voicethread account for next semester. (Video Wall)

Making Widgets

Gary — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:01:25 +0000

Been having some fun playing with Sproutbuilder. They have added new capabilities that I like. In particular a history that allows me to more easily undo the many mistakes I make. My design capabilities, obviously need some help, but you can create great widgets that mash together all sorts of content. The widget on this page contains text, an RSS feed from one of my class blog categories and numerous videos that my students created. All placed together into a flash based widget.

Recently they added the capabilities of adding a Gform to a widget or your tweets as you can see on my sidebar. All sorts of possibilities.

Group Bookmarks RSS Feeds to Webslides

Gary — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 06:50:53 +0000

Took the educators at Diigo group RSS feed to show how you can add a WebSlide RSS feed to a blog. I am not sure if I missed something but when I clicked on the WebSlide icon shown in the Groups bookmarks section it creates the webslide but I could not find the embed code. So the steps I used involve:

get the feed that you want (http://groups.diigo.com/rss/educators/bookmark)
go to http://slides.diigo.com/ to decide what type of web slide you want to use
Add the RSS feed to the the WebSlide

Decide on how you want to display your WebSlide
Copy the embed code into your blog post or page

WebSlides do not fit in that well with my blog layout. So I created a different page template and using this template was able to fit the Diigo WebSlide into the blogsite a bit better. It would be nice if the ability to embed the slide was available as soon as you clicked on the WebSlide Icon in the groups section.

Back to My High School Days?

Gary — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:11:42 +0000